The revised RG Score uses the reputation of those who view, comment or interact with you to calculate your score. The higher their score the greater the impact on your score will be. However, where disciplines traditionally score lower in citation counts, journal impact factors etc. they will start with a lower base. This would be true of social sciences and humanities and whichever category Librarianship and Information Science currently resides. Should RG introduce discipline norms so that your score is greater than XX% in discipline A, as well as your score is greater than XX% in ResearchGate?
In my view, RG score should not include the reputation of those who view, it should include comment, responses or interactions. Questions/Answers, comments, and responses of those who have less scores should also be viewed freely. Reputations of persons of post-view responses, comments and interactions may be included in computing RG score.
RG score may be both discipline based and general.
Hi Matt, I tend to agree with you, but I have doubts about this... The problem is that the guys from RG do not explain clearly how they proceed, that is, they do not show the math formulae used to calculate our scores... So, I don´t know whether or not they employ some multiplying factor to compensate the differences among fields that you pointed...
Hi Walter, the topic of the RG Score was extensively discussed when it was introduced. Most of the comments seem to be in this thread [ https://www.researchgate.net/post/ResearchGate_RG_SCORE_inclusion_in_the_personal_Curriculum_Vitae_CV ]. It was actually re-based and scores appeared to be more representative of the standing each person. My point is that historically in many metrics, including IF Social Sciences and Humanities score lower. In fact one of the many criticisms of IF is that people use it indiscriminately without reference to the disciplinary context. I just think that it would be easy for RG to produce across discipline averages for RG. rather than a whole RG average. On the other hand are we taking it too seriously!
Best Wishes
Matt
Of course, it be nice if RG introduce discipline norms...
But In my view one good scientist doesn‘t necessarily has a high RG.
It is no meaning of any IF ...
The rg score has no objective value, but it satisfies the need for recognition
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